Hermes · sidebar redesign · v4

F at the top.
Location-first zones below.

Your pick (F) keeps the
brand-cards-with-pills picker.
Sidebar zones reorganized
location-first like bothjc.
How this works
F is the picker at the top of the sidebar — click it once, see brand cards each with their location pills, one tap sets the cell. Below F, sidebar zones organize by scope the way bothjc does it: Today @ Mall B and Inventory @ Mall B follow the location half of the cell; Menu @ sassy.id follows the brand half; Central kitchen and Admin stay workspace-wide. Brand chip filter on each operational page for in-page narrowing without losing the cell.
Mall B sassy.id Orders
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Orders
12 today · Mall B · sassy.id
Brand
Order Brand Item Status Time
#1042 S sassy.id Croissant + cold brew Cooking 12:14
#1041 S sassy.id Pain au chocolat ×2 Ready 12:09
#1040 S sassy.id Latte + Croissant Ready 11:58
#1037 S sassy.id Almond croissant Closed 11:42
#1036 S sassy.id Cinnamon roll ×3 Closed 11:30
F switcher
Brand cards with location pills
Click F at the top of the sidebar. See brand cards, each showing only the malls that brand actually sells at as pills. One tap on any pill sets both — that's your operating cell. Mie Asoy doesn't sell at Mall C? It's just not there. F teaches the constraints visually.
Sidebar zones
Location-first like bothjc
Today @ Mall B and Inventory @ Mall B follow the location half. Switch to Mall C → these zones retitle and the data scopes. Menu @ sassy.id follows the brand half. Central kitchen + Admin stay workspace-wide.
Pages
Brand chip on each page
On Orders, Stock, Sales — a brand chip filter sits above the table. Default = the brand half of your cell. Click All to see every brand at this mall without losing your location context.
What four research sources said
Lightspeed K-Series
Top-of-nav location switcher, page-preserving. "Switching transfers you to the corresponding area of the selected location's Back Office."
Toast Multilocation
"Switch Restaurant" at top of back office. Anti-pattern: they collapse virtual brands into "fake locations" — operators hate it.
Otter (CloudKitchens)
Split brand and location into two filters explicitly. Brand is never a sidebar peer to location. Always-visible at top of every report.
bothjc admin
Topbar dropdown with "All Locations" default. POS app locks location to the cashier. Stock keyed by (brand, location).